Cornwall-Hugh Town-1791 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18589

Map Date:

1791

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/122

Historic county:

Cornwall

Town name:

Hugh Town

Map type:

Hydrographic

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SV905106

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SV 8912

Map title:

'Sketch of the Islands of Scilly, with the soundings and the heights of the hills ... by order of His Grace the Duke of Leeds...'

Comments on map:

Only admitted under the exceptional circumstances of exiguous mapping of Scilly.

Scale:

1:28,800

Map-maker:

Thomas Cubitt, Land Surveyor [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

89.8 x 47.8

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use, decorative

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/122 [four copies].

Relief:

slopes shown

Borders:

decorative

Stated measuerments:

spot heights

Ordnance Survey's

1887

1:2500

1:10,560